Excerpt from Free Trade Not Proven, in Seven Letters to the People of England Sir, - Although the immediate cause of the following letters, was the mistaken notions of Mr. Labouchere, expressed in the House of Commons, I can shew just cause for thus calling your attention to their contents. Mr. Labouchere was but repeating the lesson of the Anti corn-law League, - you were its founder and the apostle of its creed. Since a prime minister's acknowledgment of your prowess, no minister of the crown can be disgraced by taking rank on the question of free trade, under the master mind, by whose a peals to reason, enforced by eloquence the more to be admire because unaffected and unadorned, the free trade measures were carried. Being my representative in Parliament, I have now a claim on your attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.